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(NoHbdeL) v P. D. FISCHER & 0. NONNENMAGHBR.-

I Folding Lounge. No. 240,114; Patented April 12,1881.

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H. PETERS, PHOTQLITNOGRAFHER. WASHINGTON. u C.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PETER D. FISCHER AND CHARLES NONNENMAOHER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

FOLDING LOUNGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 240,114, dated April 12, 1881.

Application filed-March 3, 1881.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, PETER. D. FISCHER and CHARLES NONNENMAGHER, of the city, county, and, State of New York, have invented a new Improvement in Folding Lounges, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to extension folding lounges; and it consists in so constructing the same that the links which connect the two parts shall be inclosed with the frame out of sight when the lounge is closed; and it further consists in constructing the shell so that it shall be supported independently of the body when opened or extended.

Figure l is afrontelevation of the improved folding lounge closed,with parts broken away to exhibit other parts. Fig. 2 is a sectional end elevation of the same.- Fig. 3 is an end elevation of the same. Fig. 4 is an end elevation of the same open or extended.

- Similar letters of reference indicate correspondin g parts.

1n the drawings, A represents the main body of the folding lounge, and B the top or shell covering the main body A when closed, on the top, front, head, and foot, without showing any joints or dividing-lines on the said front or head or foot ends. Said top or shell B is secured to the main body A by means of curved rotating links 0, that are rigidly secured on the outside of the body A on the ends of a rod, D, that extends the whole length of the body A inside of and parallel with its front. The opposite ends of said links 0 are secured by being pivoted with screws or pins a. to lugs E, that are fastened on the inner faces of the ends of the top or shell B, so that by removing said screws or pins a the top or shell B can be detached from the body A. These lugs E are so shaped as to permit the ends of the links Oto be held between them and the ends of the top or shell B. The links 0 are secured in such a position that their convex sides, when the top or shell B is closed upon the body A, are above a straight line drawn between the ends of said links 0, and when the top or shell (N0 model.)

Bis opened or extended the links 0 are reversed in position, so that their convex sides are below such straight line, so that said links 0 in no way interfere with the frame or woodwork of the lounge, nor do they require recesses or pockets to be formed therein for their reception, as is ordinarily the case in the construction of other folding lounges.

F F are the folding-lounge legs, the front legs, F, projecting for about half their thickness in front of the body A, as shown at b, and the hind legs, F, projecting at the ends, as shown at 0, so as to give firm support to the top or shell B when the latter is closed. The shell or top B is longer than the body A by the thickness of the ends of the former and the thickness of the links 0, and the ends or head and foot of said top or shell B are of suf ficient length to extend flush with the rear face of the back of the body A.as shown atd, when the lounge is closed, so that no indication of' the double use of the lounge can be observed at either end thereof, and the front of said top or shell B also presents an unbroken line. The

legs F F raise said lounge from the floor, so that good ventilation is afforded, and are of such height that the lounge is no higher above the floor when closed than an ordinary lounge.

Having thus described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent. is

1. In the construction of a folding lounge, the body A, provided with projecting legsFF, substantially as herein shown and described, saitl legs serving to support the lounge top or shell when the lounge is closed, as set forth.

2. ln afolding lounge, the combination, with the body A, provided with rod D, of the top screws a, constructed and arranged substantially as herein shown and described.

PETER D. FISCHER. CHARLES NONNENMAOHER.

Witnesses:

F. A. BURNHAM, GEO. BURNHAM, Jr.

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